A FATAL ROCK FELL FROM A PILLAR IN STOPE 66V7 OCCURRED WHILE A FRONT-END LOADER OPERATOR WAS LOADING ROCK INTO UNDERGROUND HAULAGE TRUCK. HE SUSTAINED A CRUSHING INJURY TO THE LOWER PORTION OF HIS BODY.
Fluor Corp controller
Watch this controller
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any mine Fluor Corp controls.
Top causes
- ELECTRICAL 2 fatalities · 8 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 218 non-fatal
- HOISTING 150 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 114 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Viburnum #28 Mine/Mill MO
- Fletcher Mine and Mill MO
- Buick Mine/Mill MO
- CENTRAL SERVICES MO
- Viburnum #29 Mine MO
- Brushy Creek Mine/Mill MO
- Viburnum #35 (Casteel Mine) MO
- Central Office & Lab MO
- PEA RIDGE IRON ORE CO MO
- Bull Frog Mill NV
- Brushy Creek Mill MO
- Empire State Mines NY
- Balmat No 2 Mine NY
- Balmat Mine No 3 NY
- PIERREPONT PROPERTY NY
- Port Lock Quarry VA
- San Juan Ridge CA
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedI.NAME AND HELPER REMOVED THE DRIVE LINE FROM THE REAR AXLE AND THIS RELEASED THE BRAKING FORCE ON THE FRONT AXLE ALLOWING THEMACHINE TO ROW OFF THE BLOCKS THAT WERE UNDER THE REAR END. THE M ACHINE CAME DOWN, LANDING ON I.HAME.
WHILE MAKING HOIST REPAIRS MAIN POWER CONTACTOR WAS OPENED AND ROLLED OUT ON TO FLOOR TO CHANGE COIL APPARENTLY OPERATING LINKAGE HAD STUCK NOT ALLOWING MECHANISM TO OPEN ALL THE WAY TO THE LATCHED POSITION AND WHEN CONTACTOR WAS PUSHED BACK IN IT OPERATED THE SWITCH LINKAGE IN REVERSE PULLING CONTACTOR IN TO HOT BUSS CAUSING FATALITY
WHILE PULLING OUT ONE OF FOUR GUY WIRES TO STABILIZE DRILL DERRICK GUY WIRE BEING PULLED BY HAND ACCIDENTLY CAME IN CONTACT WITH ELECTRIC POWER LINE